PX155 - D9 - driven damped simple harmonic motion
PX153 - E3 - driven damped simple harmonic motion
- add an additional oscillatory force
to the damped mass on a spring, where applied frequency - PX155 - A2 - newton's second law:
- dividing by
and switching to complex notation:
- note:
, is the frequency of the applied oscillating force
- dividing by
- we care about long term solutions, after damped SHM solutions have died away
- try:
- in [1] :
this is a complex number - recall
in modulus argument form
- with
- with
- equate two forms of
:
- B2:
, - comparison: consider a static load (
)
is an extension of spring under static load:
- for small
- key features:
- amplitude of the response varies with
and peaks close to resonance -
- at small
, system responds in phase( ) - at
- at large
- "antiphase"
- at small

- FWHM - full width at half maximum - width of resonance
- dimensionless Q-factor is
, so,
- amplitude of the response varies with